Oct 1-7 is Mental Illness Awareness Week (MIAW), an annual national public education campaign coordinated by the Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health (CAMIMH). CAMIMH’s mandate is to ensure that mental illness and mental health are placed on the national agenda so that Canadians receive appropriate access to care and support. CMHA is […]Continue readingMental Illness Awareness Week: Oct 1-7, 2018
On October 1st from 5:00 – 9:00 PM, join us at Chipotle at Unit 879 Park Royal North as we Eat for Change! When you show our flyer or mention our fundraiser to the cashier, 33% of your purchase will be donated to support our Steps Youth Program. Invite your friends and family to indulge in […]Continue readingOn October 1st, Eat for Change!
The Canadian Mental Health Association calls for new legislation to bring mental health into balance with physical health. TORONTO (ONTARIO) September 17, 2018 – Over half of Canadians (53%) consider anxiety and depression to be ‘epidemic’ in Canada, with that perception spiking amongst younger people, according to a new survey commissioned by the Canadian Mental […]Continue readingOver half of Canadians consider anxiety and depression ‘epidemic’
You can help someone who is thinking about suicide By the Canadian Mental Health Association’s Centre for Suicide Prevention Today is September 10, World Suicide Prevention Day. This is the one day a year focused solely on awareness around the issue of suicide and its prevention and this year, we’re spreading the message that […]Continue readingWorld Suicide Prevention Day – September 10th
Thank you! CMHA North and West Vancouver Branch would like to give a big thank you to Pacific Blue Cross Health Foundation for their generous donation to support programming for youth on the North Shore. Thanks to their contribution, we were able to pilot our Steps program to youth ages 19-29. After successfully hosting Steps for the […]Continue readingPacific Blue Cross is helping us serve North Shore youth
June 21 of every year marks an opportunity in Canada to recognize the contributions that First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Peoples have made to Canada. And these contributions continue to be significant and increasing across all sectors and aspects of our national identity and history. We owe a debt of gratitude to the First Peoples […]Continue readingNational Indigenous People’s Day: An Open Letter From CMHA
In our culture, we are mostly silent about suicide. But when celebrities die by suicide – as Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain did last week, the issue becomes front-page news. Anyone who has lost a loved one to suicide can attest to its utter devastation. This devastation becomes widespread when famous people die, as evidenced […]Continue readingCelebrity Suicide Deaths – Preventing “Contagion”
Your own mental health checklist There are many schools of thought on mental health. So, at the Canadian Mental Health Association, we waded into everything from western psychology to Indigenous knowledge, and here is what we found: when we look at various descriptions of mental health, the overlaps are striking. We found that, while feeling […]Continue readingYour Mental Health Checklist
“For when thousands of Canadians ride in dozens of cities across our great country as free, strong, and unashamed contributing citizens, then the fear and misunderstanding vanishes and we are left with nothing but love, acceptance, and humanity.” – Michael Schratter, Founder and Ambassador of Ride Don’t Hide. The statistics are clear: one in five Canadians […]Continue readingJoin us for Ride Don’t Hide on June 24
Get Ready to Get Loud! Every year, the CMHA Mental Health Week conversation gets very, very loud. It gets loud om social media, in our homes and in our workplaces. In our schools and across our campuses. It gets loud in the halls of Parliament and in city and town halls across the country. This […]Continue readingMental Health Week is May 7-13